Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1396) as 'Writing on the Wall'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 128) as 'Writing on the Wall'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 131) as 'Writing on the Wall'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• The Inaugural Exhibition, Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, 1915, p. 50 (cat. no. 311).
• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 271, pl. 270.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.113a-c, as'Writing on the Wall'.
• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website. GUW #01509, #01534.